...R. P. Dore Meiji bunka shi: Shūkyō-hen [Cultural History of Meiji: Vol. VI, Religion] . Ed. Kishimoto Hideo . Tokyo : Yōyōsha , 1954 . ix, 577 . Chronology. 450/1000 yen. Japanese Religion in the Meiji Era . Comp. and ed. Kishimoto Hideo . Tr. John F. Howes . Japanese Culture...

...Richard T. Chang Meiji ishinshi no mondaiten (Problems in the History of the Meiji Restoration) . Edited by Sakata Yoshio . Tokyo : Miraisha , 1962 . 420 . ¥1,200. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963 1963 BOOK REVIEWS 331 It may very well be that Bellah...

..., and Succession,” AJS , 68 (Nov 1962 ), pp. 355 —59 . 3 Hackett Roger F. , Yamagata Aritomo in the Rise of Modern Japan, 1838–1922 ( Cambridge, Mass. , 1971 ), pp. 65 – 66 . 4 Silberman Bernard , Ministers of Modernization: Elite Mobility in the Meiji Restoration...

...John Young Nihon no Gaikō—Meiji Ishin kara Gendai made [Diplomacy of Japan—from Meiji Reformation to the Present] . By Akira Iriye . Tokyo : Chūō Kōron Sha , 1966 . v, 187 pp. Index. ¥200. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 710 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...H. D. Harootunian Meiji ishinshi (A History of the Meiji Restoration . By Sakata Yoshio . Tokyo : Miraisha , 1960 . 266 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 394 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES attention, the former for his penterating essays and influential...

...Hyman Kublin Abstract The meiji period (1868–1912) in Japanese history is known traditionally as an era of bustling reform during which the leaders of the restored imperial government sought to discard a feudal and backward civilization and to replace it with the modernity of the West. No people...

...Sidney D. Brown Meiji Isbin: Restoration and Revolution . Edited by Nagai Michio and Miguel Urrutia . Tokyo : The United Nations University , 1985 . viii , 225 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 153 intellectual idealism...

... theMOF." KAREN A. I. MAVEC Credit Suisse Trust & Banking Co., Tokyo Japan in Transition from Tokugawa to Meiji. Edited by MARIUS B. JANSEN and GILBERT ROZMAN. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. xii, 485 pp. Figures, Maps, Tables, Notes, About the Contributors, Index. $47.50. This volume...

... history of modern Japan, Jansen feared, we will fail to gain “a better understanding of modernization, of Japan, in world history” (1977:612–22). VOL. 46, No. 1 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES FEBRUARY 1987 The State and Ideology in Meiji Japan A Review Article ATSUKO HIRAI I n his presidential address...

... for moral discourse in the Meiji period. Chapters 2 and 4 contrast the “ethics of civilization” with the “ethics of spirit,” each with their own epistemic systems and political contexts. A modern epistemology that distinguished subject from object, value from fact, provided the foundation for the ethics...

...P. F. Kornicki Yankee in Meiji Japan: The Crusading Journalist Edward H. House . By James L. Huffman . Lanham, Md. : Rowman and Littlefield , 2003 . xvi, 309 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 798 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I...

... this was a struggle to define the nature of the Meiji Restoration—how radical would it be—and to decide who would control the politics of Japan's renovation, but intermixed with these domestic issues were several questions of foreign policy. To Japan's leaders, the Ryukyus, Taiwan, and Sakhalin were as important...

...Peter Duus Abstract With these stirring lines Takekoshi Yosaburō opened the preface to the 1893 edition of his Shin Nihonshi {History of New Japan) . It is difficult to imagine a more enthusiastic celebration of the Meiji Restoration than one likening it to the epochal founding of the Chou dynasty...

...John W. Bennett Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 Christian Converts and Social Protest in Meiji Japan . By Irwin Scheiner . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1970 . ix, 255 pp. Bibliography, Index. $6.50. 192 scope and title make some...

...Barbara Teters Historians and Meiji Statesmen . By Richard T. Chang . Gainesville : University of Florida Press , 1970 . Monograph No. 41. x, 83 pp. Appendices, Index. Paper, $3.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 894 Tokugawa history. Thomas Smith's...

...Shumpei Okamoto Ōkuma Shigenobu: Statesman of Meiji Japan . By Joyce C. Lebra . Canberra, Australia : Australian National University Press , 1973 . 195 pp. Notes, Bibliographical Note, Bibliography, Index. $10.45. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 538...

...Yoshio Sugimoto Abstract Turbulent years before and after the Meiji Restoration in 1868 have been one of the most extensively written pages of Japanese history. Much work has been carried out on the revolutionary samurai and the aspiring merchants who implemented the upheaval. Curiously, however...

... An American Teacher in Early Meiji Japan. BY EDWARD R. BEAUCHAMP. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, Asian Studies at Hawaii No. 17, 1976. xiii, 154 pp. Appendix, Bibliography. $4.75 (paper) In his introduction to Beauchamp's monograph, Robert S. Schwantes writes, "The true variety, importance and dynamics...

...Maki Kaneko Since Meiji: Perspectives on the Japanese Visual Arts, 1868–2000 . Edited by J. Thomas Rimer ; translations by Toshiko MacCallum . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2012 . x, 516 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $28.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

..., 1877. 6 Wayman Dorothy G. , Edward Sylvester Morse ( Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1942 ), 390 . 7 Ibid. , 247–257; Morse Edward S. , Japan day by day: 1877, 1878–79. 1882–83 ( Boston : Houghton Mifflin , 1917 ), 1 : 339 – 340 , 2:394 ; Meiji...